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Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair
Elliot Chang writes "For Sony's newest display, the company decided to throw into the mix ultra-thinness (just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair) and the energy-saving power of OLEDs. The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still streaming video!"
> just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair
80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.
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If you can't mu, u.
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I kept telling her that, but she wouldn't fall for it.
The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still streaming video!"
and to think, in my day we were happy with a plastic woman whose undies floated off when you tipped it up.
Granted, it's the best video quality I have seen wrapped around a pencil, but those artifacts are pretty unacceptable. Are they supposed to be there?
Too bad sony is making it. Guess I will have to wait for a chinese knockoff. No way is sony getting any of my money.
But when will I be able to buy a reasonable-size and reasonable-price display that uses OLEDs? Lab toys are cute, but real products are sexy.
How much?
How big can you get it?
How long will it last?
When will it ship?
You know the kind of important info...
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80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.
You can't expect much grasp of metric units from Americans. It was bad enough when they used the Imperial system, but nowadays they have only two units of scale: a human hair and the state of Texas. Anything in between is just passed over in embarrassed silence.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
They obviously mean microns, but either don't know the abbreviation or accidently left out a .
I like the idea of being able to switch my aspect ratio by stretching the screen.....
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Not true, we have football fields and libraries of congress as well! He meant to say it is just under 1 football field.
As you can now see, it's Slashdot's fault. Apparently someone is too lazy to update the Unicode whitelist with characters that are actually useful on a tech site.
Apparently slashdot won't take the micro symbol in comments. I don't know what is more fail: a board for nerds not allowing the micro symbol in comments or the fact that I didn't properly proofread by one sentence post.
or the fact that I didn't properly proofread by one sentence post
Even more fail would be not proofreading a post commenting on not proofreading.
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Well, there are some advantages to distortion. Think the girl in your adult video is a bit too chunky? Just bend the edges of the screen toward you!
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More common is to use 'um' for micron when a mu is not available.
I imagine such screens would be useful during the process of manufacture of various gadgets (and after production remaining in one shape, with hard translucent shell around it; otherwise it would be damaged too easily). In that case distortion shouldn't be a problem.
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"it's not how well the bear dances,
... and also that he doesn't maul your face off and take your vodka, commrade...
but that the bear dances at all"
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Seriously,
Sunglasses with HUD, Contact Lenses with onscreen displays, Fingernail Applicques a la Cyberpunk. Subdermal vital signs readout, Passports, Driver's Licenses and Credit Cards with really cool security features.
Every book and magazine you wanted to read ever on a 1 or 2 page Ebook reader way thinner than anything we have now. Yeah, batteries and storage will take up some room. At some point the interface, and charging equipment will be the bottleneck to making smaller system.
Try last month. They unconditionally (and probably illegally) pulled out a major feature of the PS3 for all PS3 owners.
It doesn't have to be meant for screens foldable to end user. Just for fab making gadgets.
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And aside from the price of minor public outrage, they have paid virtually no price for doing it. (Forgive me if I don't view having to pay each affected customer $7.50 or a voucher for a free song download as a significant punishment.)
You're correct that completely avoiding Sony products is next to impossible, but that's hardly a reason to give up on trying to impose a punishment. Where choice exists, one can choose not to go with Sony.
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Dont forget our standard unit for fluid flow: hogsheads per acre fortnight.
Wrapping a display around a pencil while it's in use is not especially useful. The point of the demo is that you can have a display that is wrapped around a cylinder and rolled out when you use it. The big advantage that a laptop has over a palmtop now is screen size. A folding keyboard that is big enough to be comfortable can easily fit in a pocket, but you're limited to something like a 4" screen. With an OLED like this, you could have a much larger screen which is simply rolled up when not in use. Eventually, you could have a pocket computer the same form factor as a pen, which you just unrolled wherever you wanted to use it. Connect a wireless keyboard if you want to do a lot of text entry, otherwise use the touchscreen. The system on chip and battery remain in the pen body.
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Nope. all my panasonic gear has NO sony components in it.
no Sony chips inside. It's one reason why I went Panasonic... they dont use ANY sony parts and are a glass maker on their own as well.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
All i can say from the specs is you'll need a pretty dark room to see anything. The sun has a luminance of about 1 billion cd/m2, fluorescent lamps about 10,000 cd/m2, the iphone-screen has a peak luminance of 428 cd/m2, and this is only 100 cd/m2. (cd=candelabra).Any stronger light-source shining on the picture (or your eyes)=less picture.
That would mean almost all light sources with this tech so far, even reflected light/backlightcan be >100 cd/m2.
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
Or to make devices with retracting/rollup screens, that's what I'm really looking forward to.
nowadays they have only two units of scale: a human hair and the state of Texas.
Not quite true. The human hair unit has three levels: the hair, the cunt hair and the red cunt hair.
This ain't rocket surgery.
I don't know if you (or anyone else) remember the "Global Link" handheld computers in the science fiction series "Earth: Final Conflict". It was a compact device that slid open to reveal what had to be a rolled up screen. Similar to the mockup on this page: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-and-sirius-xm-build-my-dream-handheld/9233 I've been waiting 13 years for them to build one.
GIve me a break, people that spew this BS haven't actually used Linux on the PS3.
It was NOT a "major" feature, I was on the YDL forums (the most active PS3 Linux community online) and it was a ghost town.
Quite frankly, PS3 on the Linux was useless, it had 256MB or RAM, less then 200MBs were usable, you could hack it to access GPU memory but it was overall pretty much useless. PPU builds of applications were hard to find, you were stuck without Flash (crappy Gnash work around), and old version of Firefox (no HTML5), and any cheap netbook would run circles around it.
The worst part is after 3 years of Linux on the PS3 nobody made any substantial Cell applications. There was barely any community support. Nobody cared.
All these whiners complaining about he loss of Linux of the PS3; where the hell were you when it was available?
Is really that useful? If you whitelist then should also be allowed, along with , and . Before you know it people will be asking for , or even !
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I guess the answer is “sorta”.
and people are still unsuspectingly installing rootkits using Sony CDs made several years ago... I have a few CDs I have to hold down the left shift key for when loading them just to be doubly sure...
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Putting Linux on the PS3 served one single purpose: Revealing to everyone the kind of crap we game developers have to put up with when making games for the damn thing.
Quite frankly, PS3 on the Linux was useless
(Assuming you meant Linux on the PS3)
Many, including the US Air Force would beg to differ.
Cellphone = iPhone and no sony chips.
Car = GM and nope, Delphi does not source sony chips. In fact sony does not have any chips for engine management or automotive systems.
Crestron gear - i doubt it. Coffee maker has no chips. Stove, Fridge... not a chance.
Sony really is not a massive chip maker anymore. It's rare to have a sony chip anymore unless it's a specific sony technology or device... Blu Ray players... They have a sony parts...
I will not buy a blu ray player. It's a dumb thing to own IMO. I use an AppleTV and a roku box for my HD movies.
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Well it doesn't work.. I stand corrected, or slashdot translates it too well and it's just to small to see.
Well look, if I only have a teaspoon on hand then that's what I measure with.
Honestly, your elitism is quite off-putting. You should be ashamed.